Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth has ordered hundreds of generals and admirals to Quantico, Virginia next week. No details were provided about the meeting. The Pentagon confirmed the meeting today. It is highly unusual to bring in military leaders from across the globe to one central location.

It remains to be seen if the Justice Department will ask a grand jury to indict former FBI

director James Comey. It has been widely reported. The DOJ is weighing the matter. President Trump

raised Comey's name today. I think I'd be allowed to get involved if it want, but I don't really choose to do so.

I can only say that Comey's a bad person.

He's a sick person.

I think he's a sick guy, actually.

He did terrible things at the FBI.

But I don't know.

I have no idea what's going to happen.

A few days ago, Trump appeared to call on the Attorney General for action against Comey and others.

The president addressed reporters today as he was hosting Turkish president, Recep Tai Berdawan.

A new report from Democratic lawmakers says President Trump's cost-cutting commission,

the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge, is putting Americans data at risk.

Here's NPR's Jeff Brumfield.

The report says Doge has created, quote, unprecedented privacy and cybersecurity risks.

As evidence, it points to a whistleblower claim that a copy of the nation's social security data was created exclusively for Doge employees.

The Social Security Administration says that copy

exists within the agency's secure cloud and is not at risk. The report also says Doge employees

operate outside of existing government cybersecurity rules and without appropriate oversight.

Democratic Senator Gary Peters of the Committee on Homeland Security and

Governmental Affairs led the effort. He says his staffers were repeatedly denied access to Doge

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